🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.27.0 (Beta) 🎉

The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib contains everything in the opentelemetry-collector release (be sure to check the release notes here as well!). Check out the Getting Started Guide for deployment and configuration information.

🚀 New components 🚀

• tcplog receiver to receive logs from tcp using the opentelemetry-log-collection library
• influxdb receiver to accept metrics data as InfluxDB Line Protocol

💡 Enhancements 💡

• splunkhec exporter:
  • Include the response in returned 400 errors (#3338)
  • Map summary metrics to Splunk HEC metrics (#3344)
  • Add HEC telemetry (#3260)
• newrelic exporter: Include dropped attributes and events counts (#3187)
• datadog exporter:
  • Add Fargate task ARN to container tags (#3326)
  • Improve mappings for span kind dd span type (#3368)
• signalfx exporter: Add info log for host metadata properties update (#3343)
• awsprometheusremotewrite exporter: Add SDK and system information to User-Agent header (#3317)
• metricstransform processor: Add filtering capabilities matching metric label values for applying changes (#3201)
• groupbytrace processor: Added workers for queue processing (#2902)
• resourcedetection processor: Add docker detector (#2775)
• tailsampling processor: Support regex on span attribute filtering (#3335_

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• datadog exporter:
  • Update Datadog attributes to tags mapping (#3292)
  • Consistent hostname and default metrics behavior (#3286)
• signalfx exporter: Handle character limits on metric names and dimensions (#3328)
• newrelic exporter: Fix timestamp value for cumulative metrics (#3406)